Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11
TIE State CAPITAL.
TIE Consideration of Senator Hous-
toms Unlawful Land Enclosure
Bill Postponed,
An Effort Made TO appoint Committee
to Investigate the Construction
of the New Capitol.
The Governor Issues a Quarantine Proclg
nation Guarding Against the Intro
duC:ion Of Cholera,
TIE FARMERS HoLp THE FLOOR.


Special to the Hazette.
AUSTIN, Ten, Feb. When the com,
mittee's substitute for Mr. Miners bill
to prevent the mOrtgaging OF exempt per
sonal property came up this morning the
farmers welded q free lance in the dis
cussion, and seemed to agree to disagree
with the same spirit of 81 am right and
you are wrong" that lawyers are accused
of. Mr.. Browning raised the question
during the consideration of the substl-
tute as to whether it was not in the
nature of a retroactive law, referring to
Supreme court decisions in support Of
his argument.
HoUsToN'S UNLAWFUL ENCLOSURE BILL.
The Senate committee substitute for
Senator Houston's unlawful Enclosure
bill came up on special order this morn
ing. Senator Houston offered an amend
ment to section l of the bill, but before
any discussion or vote was taken on the
amendment Senator Douglass of Grayson
made q motion to postpone the further
consideration OF both the bill and
the amendment until next Wednesday
two weeks. To this Senator Houston
raised the objection that the bill had been
pending in the committee room and be-
tore the House ever since the third week
OF the session, and IS the substitute bill
was made q special order for to-day, he
desired to see it discussed on its merits.
Senator Douglass answered that as the
bill now stands it appeared to
MIN to mean free grass il it passed and
free grass il it was defeated, and he wan
ted time foT himself and colleagues to
look into il and if possible cure it by
amendments. The motion to postpone
prevailed.
CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW CAPITAL.
The question Of appointing a commit
tee of investigation 10 inquire into the
manner of constructing the new State
Capitol and the amendment to add q
competent architect to the committee,
was the occasion Of q warm debate, during
which soma of the members claimed that
employ an architect would be waste
of the peoples money, that committee
was competent to do al the investigation
needed. Those in favor of the amend
ment held that q committee without an
architect would know nothing about the
construction after they had made the IL
vestigation, or words to that effect. A
suggestion was made that it would be d
reflection on the Attorney General and
the Ca, itol Board. This brought DR..
Camp of Limestone to his feet, whothought
that no officers should be above investi-
CATION. Mr.. Browning thought that it
would take three months TO make the
Investigation without an architect. The
amendment and resolution were then put
to vote and lost.
CLASS LEGISLATION AGAIN.
4 spirited discussion arose over an
amendment offered to the bill IN the
House to encourage agriculture and hor-
ticul;ure. The amendment proposed to
incorporate in the bill clause to allow
the farmers to incorporate cooperative
associations to handle their own products
and establish stores to supply their
wants. This brought up the subject of
class legislation again. Mr.. Groce then
offered an amendment that the
privilege should not be confined
TO the farming class. Mr.. Browning
offered q substitute for the amendment
limiting the capital stock to $4,000 and
limiting every stakeholder to $500. E1e
then asked that both the bill and The
amendments be voted down because he
considered it in any light the worst
kind OF Glass legislation. Nr.
Bell OF Coke thought that
nOlHluS DuL Stbu COulO IuuLG HUN lls
passage OF the Gill if they were allowed
to sell indisCriminately. The bill wss
lost.
QUARANTINE PROCLAMATION.
Govern or Ross issued proclamation
against the Argentine Republic and other
South American pnrts-in substance that
ne believed that the state of Texas was
threatened along It's coast line with chol-
~ - fc liybI a m no i-,+r
by vessels from the Argentine Republic
ami other South American ports, that il
has become epidemic in the towns OF
Sabaca and Rosario, Beunos Ayres, and
that other countries, notably Chill, have
absolutely closed their ports against these
infected ports; that the benefits derived
from commerce with these ports is not
commensurate with the danger appre-
hended from leaving our ports open, and
if there be any doubt as to the magnitude
of the danger that it is best for the health
and safety of the people of the state of
Texas that the earliest and utmost pre-
caution should be taken.
N THE HOUSE.
The following additional bills and reso-
lutlons were introduced in the House to-
day: By Mr.. Payne, a bill to extend the
time for the collection OF taxes in Lee
and other counties.
By Mr.. Truit, by request, q resolution
to amend article 10, section 2, of the con- |
stitution relative to railroads.
By Mr., Graves, by request, establishing /
and organizing the county of Bennett out /
of parts of Burnet, Coryell, LampasaS
and Williamson counties.
BY Mr.. Hunt, protecting against fence
breaking animals.
BY Mr.. Shield, providing for the loca-
ton Of veteran land certificates.
BY Mr.. Newton of Tarrant, amending
the mechanic and lahorer's lien law.
: By Mr.. Bell of Cooke, providing for
voluntary adoption Of a uniform system
of text books, and for furnishing the
books.
By Mr.. Latiner, making it CRIME to
entice or persuade any female under
eighteen years Of age to enter any house
of lll-fdme or prostitution.
House bill repeating the act granting
1880 acres land certificates was
passed.
House bill IS, amending article 3l4 of
the penal code relative to breaches of the
peace, SO as TO apply the law to disturb
snce of private houses, was ordered en- !
SAssed.. J
HANG miftee on counties and county
GmasSn the House will probably t
Dress naly tomorrow the Senate bill 4
@ eW county OF Mills to be {